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Self-Sufficiency in Style

Doing without

How much income will we need?.

You won't need as much income to live a self-sufficient life style.

You simply won't be doing the same things.

You won't eat out that often..

Home produced food, imaginatively cooked, tastes better. You will lose your enthusiasm for dining out.

Guests enjoy the idea that they are eating your produce.

Please take a close look at your monthly expenditure today.

Food  is probably  quite a minor item, but you are spending a lot eating out.

Holidays and trips away are a major item in your present budget.

You can't go far with a cow to milk and greenhouses to water. 

Forget long car journeys, crowded airports, travel insurance, passports. 

You have left them and the associated costs behind you. This is something you won't miss.

You won't be going to the supermarket very often

You aren't going anywhere far, and there is nobody in your new life to impress.

A couple of old bangers, one a pick-up, will do you just fine.

Transport, especially the motor cars, is a big item.

Entertainment and sport take a lot of money today.

You won't have time to belong to the golf club and you won't need keep-fit ever again. 

Your handicap might deteriorate, but the weight will drop off

You can expect to lose 50 to 60 percent of your current bills - maybe more.

Having cheered you up, you can return to Income, or go on to think about the Capital you might need.

If you feel it is still impossible you can consider keeping your job as suggested in Financial Support.

Long after this article was written, experience enables us to take the theme a little further in Fashionable Savings.

There will be literally dozens of similar examples.

"Cutting the costs."

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 the strangely named Hangman's Cottage, just to the south of Misery Corner.